Orb-web spider Argiope (Araneidae) as indigenous arrow poison of G/ui and G//ana San hunters in the Kalahari

• Tharina L. Bird ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tharina L. Bird, Caroline S. Chaboo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tharina@ditsong.org.za

  Affiliations General Entomology, Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, Pretoria, South Africa, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, South Africa, Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST), Palapye, Botswana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4409-8866

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• Smith Moeti ,

  Roles Investigation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Private, Ghanzi, Botswana

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• Robert K. Hitchcock ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America, Kalahari Peoples Fund, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Melinda C. Kelly ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America, Kalahari Peoples Fund, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Lefang L. Chobolo,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST), Palapye, Botswana

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• Nonofo Gotcha,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST), Palapye, Botswana

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• Kgosi K. Moatlhodi,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST), Palapye, Botswana

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• Leungo D. Mukoka,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST), Palapye, Botswana

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• Emmanuel K. Sekopo,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST), Palapye, Botswana

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• Caroline S. Chaboo

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tharina L. Bird, Caroline S. Chaboo

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Systematics Research Collections, University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6983-8042

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